From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SfOQv-0000RE-0r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:46:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D593E064F; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4CCE050E for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8122101F for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:45:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:45:51 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=zzqVnaKQt3mN6Sy092Uuvc4Bqeo=; b=mqQ99ZPpVnz9kB5n3VimzUja0S6R mN4CLIbMT/Y30h3XL0panhy9t9IDkznrMCg6+Nu7VlvJzW1yVoydN9m8E/jW1np7 8lRm7kgLcANuOsQx9DYkaLPdXbI1OxPGMO5pghFh6Z+sRFbRG//Rbsa4R2SBBq1E ZpKiar7suWtb3VY= X-Sasl-enc: ME/8PEnGaPc5KZsyYvohr1B6/Rbc7oAPKLbjWKkzQfRw 1339735551 Received: from localhost (unknown [67.168.183.230]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 14409483606; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:45:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:45:39 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo Message-ID: <20120615044539.GA2130@kroah.com> References: <20120615042810.GA9480@kroah.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120615042810.GA9480@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 0bc99f8e-9649-44e4-aca6-a1f7cc5877de X-Archives-Hash: 8e1410f7d51e7113028e9381ed7756df On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:28:10PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. > > Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about > Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? > > Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to > sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side that I've > been wondering about. Oh, and for those that don't know, I did a lot of UEFI secure boot work in the past at SUSE, and should be soon a member of the UEFI "organization" through my work at the Linux Foundation, so I do have a basic grasp of the issues involved, and have a chance to get changes made, if needed, and possible, to the spec itself. greg k-h